Grace is currently based in Boston, MA. She holds a BFA in Art and Design from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Painting from Boston University.
contact: jgracegiordano@gmail.com
I approach art making as a linguistic practice and writing as a spatial one. Moving between drawing, painting, objects, and installation, I construct morphing visual-spatial grammars. Repetition of motifs, material, and form let both meaning and environment emerge and shift over time, devolving into complex, self-referencing systems, much like language.
Sitting a few yards left of architecture and a few steps south of poetics, I place the challenges of navigating language into an experience that can be had with the body. Contrasting rhythm with disruptive stumbling, like moving off the wall or pulling focus to the ground, I use encounter and fragmentation as tools for continual rewriting.
Similar to text, my work invites multiplicity, misreading, and slippage between meanings. A target becomes a watching eye; trees become people; stone slips to book; a fence post functions as a pencil; a painting of a diagram depicts a painting of a diagram; sculpture both is and is not. Things are always in a place of becoming.
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